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Equity in High School Learning
Defining Equity in High School Learning | English Language Learner (ELL) Students | Technical Assistance Responses
Every high school student in the U.S. public school system should have the opportunity for a high-quality and challenging academic experience. There have been great strides in recent years to recognize promising practices that work for all types of learners.
The National High School Center provides access to vetted resources and tools to improve educational outcomes for all students on the high school level. A special focus of the National High School Center is special needs students and English Language Learners.
Defining Equity in High School Learning
African-American Students and U.S. High Schools (Updated)
This fact sheet from the Alliance For Excellent Education provides information about how the education system serves African-American students, and the areas which require improvement to close the achievement gap.
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
The Education Trust, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reports findings from their analysis of achievement data and school practices at seven public high schools. Four “high-impact” schools were compared to three other “average-impact” high schools. In addition to the many similarities between the two groups of schools, researchers found some significant (though sometimes subtle) differences. These key findings were organized into five “spheres”: 1) Culture, 2) Academic Core, 3) Support, 4) Teachers, and 5) Time and other resources. This resource will be of particular interest to schools working to improve the learning on behalf of below grade-level students.
High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color
This report by the School Redesign Network at Stanford University presents a case study of four schools in California, which have unique programs, graduate a greater percentage of their students, and send a greater percentage of their students on to college than similar schools. The report investigates what makes these schools work, and offers policy prescriptions for states to improve public high schools.
The Last Have Become First: Rural and Small Town America Lead the Way on Desegregation
This research brief, released by the Human Rights Project at UCLA, addresses the current state of segregation within America’s public school system, disaggregating school demographics by race/ethnicity and urbanicity. The research finds that the lowest level of segregation is found in the nation’s small towns and rural areas, while urban areas are home to the most intensely segregated schools and school districts.
Latino Students and U.S. High Schools
This factsheet, from the Alliance for Excellent Education, provides relevant and current research findings to highlight the disparity in education access and services for Latino students. The research findings can encourage policymakers to make changes in education to close the achievement gap for Latino students
NAEP 2008: Trends in Academic Progress
This report, released by the National Center for Education Statistics, presents the results of the NAEP long-term trend assessments in reading and mathematics for 9,13 and 17-year-olds. It compares these results from the 2007-2008 school year to those from 2004 and from 1971 and 1973, the first years the reading and mathematics tests were administered respectively. Among its many findings, the report observes that the average reading and mathematics scores for 17-year-old students have not improved since those tests were initially administered.
A Plan for Success: Communities of Color Define Policy Priorities for High School Reform
This report, authored by the Campaign for High School Equity, a group of nine national organizations representing communities of color, offers a framework of policy priorities to improve the underperforming high schools serving students of color. The report outlines a menu of priorities for high school improvement meant to address the needs of those at-risk students attending the nation’s lowest-performing high schools.
Quality Counts: National Highlights 2008
This report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center evaluates the success of the50 states and DC to improve their citizens' lives through education. Using six indicators to assess the states, the report offers a grade on each indicator for each state, as well as an overall grade for each state and the nation (C+) as a whole.
Strategies to Empower Low-Income and Minority Students in Gaining Admission to and Paying for College
This policy brief from ECS identifies four types of barriers created by federal, state, and local policies that challenge aspiring first-generation college students in the college and financial aid application process. The brief also includes state-level policy suggestions to address each barrier.
